Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08
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taken OF subs: ription.
Roth Bros. keep everything IN
stock-but turret hooks.
il. w. Castleman and George Whit.
ley were in town Tuesday.
The probabilities are that serauld
county VIII not need a term OF court
shis year.
Don't you forget it. That the
Herald Office can do tirst-llass Job work
in short notice.
Will. Crawford makes regular trips
TO Woonsocket with his freight wagon
and is well p%atronized.
The Woodburn House is again op-
ened for guests. 1t is under the man
sgement of a. b. Easter.
Just think of it, The Herald and
tlousekeeper both for a whole year,
and 40 big books, all for 1925.
The Haddock trial is being follow
cd with intense interest by thousands.
Some strange developments are taking
place.
Letter heads, note heads, envelopes,
statements, bills, notes, cards, posters,
and all kinds Of legal forms printed at
The Herald office.
Mrs. N. M. Lamb. mother OF the
associate editor is visiting at Wessing-
ton Springs. She will probably spend
The summer here.
-RevsSmith will preach at the church
in Washington Springs next Sabbath
evening. Let everyone turn out and
give him a full house.
Last week our paper failed to note
the death of the infant of Mr.. and Mrs.
J T. Mcnamara. The entire commu-
nifty sympathiZes with the bereaved
parents.
is your Herald paid for? Remem~
Der, it takes cash to pay IL bills, and
if you cannot pay the full amount due,
whatever you car pay will be gladly
feceived.
Levi Gaumer OF ?oweshiek county
iowa, subscribes fer the Herald another
year. He was n of the earliest set
Tiers Of Jerauld county, and wants to
keep posted concerning it.
We editor returned from Nebraska
last Monday. Two days were spent
visiting a brother near Plainvlew, the
remainder of the twelve days were
spent waiting for trains and ferry
boats.
MIR. Arhart and Mr.. Sheel made f.
nal proof on a half section OF Jerauld
county dirt recently. They have staid
by their claims faithfully for the last
five years, in spite Of billiards, drouths
Snd grasshoppers.
Geo. Hayens who has been working
in this Office for a short time, accident
ally shot himself while playing with a
revolver last Saturday. The ball is
lodged near the left knee but at pres.
ent writing it's exact locality IS not
known. The wound is not considered
serious and Georgei is allowed to peram-
bulate on crutches.
The Interstate commerce bill is
pow law, and is being worked for all
that it is worth. The good points in
che bill are so wedged in among fool
ish ones that they are not plainly seen
However if the bill should be the
means of causing the government to
take charge OF the railroads 1t may yet
be a blessing to US.
No editor likes to apologize, and
none could more deeply regret that an
apology is necessary than we do, but
it has never been our misfortune to en-
counter a more rapid succession OF
mishaps and calamities than theIeraid
office was called to undergo last week.
Owing to this conglomeration OF Cir
pumstances you will find one page more
blank than usual. Kind reader, be le-
nient.
We clip the following from the
Newspaper Union. Mr.. Wilson will
be remembered by Washington Springs
folks as the pleasant and capable fore
man Of the Herald Office during the
latter part of last summer:
ITO G. L. Wilson, a brilliant and
promising young author of Center
Point, has been extended the honor Of
an election to membership in the Am.
Association of writer's, an organization
recently formed, embracing many Of
the leading literary men Of the coun-
try"
Our thanks are due Chas. Betcher
for a copy Of the Herald, published at
Big Stone City, Oak. The mineral
springs there are becoming famous
through the exertions of the Big Stone
Mineral Spring Co. They sell the water
at 50. so per case, $500 of which is re-
turned upon receipt of the empty bot
ties, which may be returned at their
expense. AS near as we can ascertain,
the water is very much like that of the
SQLrulIpu SlIiDhur SnrinU near orr town